God Worked for the Sheer Joy of it

“In the beginning, then, God worked. Work was not a necessary evil that came into the picture later, or something human beings were created to do but that was beneath the great God himself. No, God worked for the sheer joy of it. Work could not have a more exalted inauguration.” 

Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller (Dutton, 2012) pp. 34-35